KJV King James Version
This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] Latin.
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John 19:20
This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] Latin.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Many of the Jews read this sign, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.
WEB World English Bible
Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek.
ASV American Standard Version
This title therefore read many of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, and in Latin, and in Greek.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
this title, therefore, read many of the Jews, because the place was nigh to the city where Jesus was crucified, and it was having been written in Hebrew, in Greek, in Roman.
Surrounding context — John 19
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called [the place] of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put [it] on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.
20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, [and] Greek, [and] Latin.
21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written.
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also [his] coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
τοῦτονG3778 · ohutosthis/he/she/itοὖνG3767 · ountherefore/thenτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoτίτλονG5102 · titlostitleπολλοὶG4183 · polusmuchἀνέγνωσανG314 · anaginōskōto readτῶνG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸουδαίων,G2453 · IoudaiosJewὅτιG3754 · hotithat/since: thatἐγγὺςG1451 · engusnearἦνG1510 · eimito beὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoτόποςG5117 · toposplaceτῆςG3588 · hothe/this/whoπόλεωςG4172 · poliscityὅπουG3699 · hopouwhere(-ever)ἐσταυρώθηG4717 · stauroōto crucifyὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoἸησοῦς·G2424 · IēsousJesusκαὶG2532 · kaiandἦνG1510 · eimito beγεγραμμένονG1125 · graphōto writeἙβραϊστί,G1447 · HebraistiHebrewῬωμαϊστί,G4515 · Rhōmaistiin LatinἙλληνιστί.¶G1676 · HellēnistiGreek
Cross-references
Acts 21:37And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said unto the chief captain, May I speak unto thee? Who said, Canst thou speak Greek?Acts 22:2(And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)Revelation 16:16And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.John 5:2Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.Acts 21:40And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto [them] in the Hebrew tongue, saying,John 19:13When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he brought Jesus forth, and sat down in the judgment seat in a place that is called the Pavement, but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha.Acts 26:14And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.Revelation 9:11And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.Hebrews 13:12Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
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